A machine called the Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER), heats solid waste to produce syngas (synthetic gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen), ferments food slops to produce alcohol, and chemically processes the two to make biodiesel that powers a generator.
The midwife must have dropped that tiny baby alive into the slops pail!
AN OILY green algal film slops on the shore of Tai Lake, China's third-largest freshwater body.
The chief architect of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan, a post-war health minister, famously remarked that "every time a maid kicks over a bucket of slops in a ward an agonised wail will go through Whitehall".
'That's a living child,' I said in a shaking voice, pointing at the slops pail.
There are no branded fast-food chains on the G6, the catering norm being lukewarm slops served in an all-you-can-eat buffet for 30 yuan.
For his latest book, "India: The Road Ahead", he slops happily in the muddy mountains of Arunachal Pradesh on the Chinese border, sweats out daylong election rallies, and breaks bread with low-caste villagers in Rajasthan.
There was a low sob, and then a man's gruff voice said accusingly: 'Useless thing!'"Suddenly, I thought I heard a slight movement in the slops pail behind me," Miss Xinran remembers.
A maid who might have worked for a couple just like these two, a maid who blacked the grates and emptied the slops and scrubbed the front step and polished the floors and perhaps even left a casserole warm in the oven when she went back, once a fortnight, to her own family's smaller, meaner home.
They slept rough, drank pub slops and cadged food – together till death and buried side by side "Beggars made good subjects for cards," explains the Bond Street gallerist John Kasmin of the reason these motley sorts adorn myriad postcards he has collected from around the world.
He lost control for reasons unknown while skiing off-piste, between two relatively easy slops, at the exclusive resort of Meribel in the Three Valleys region of the French Alps.
